The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30
OF THE WEEK

"A tramp succeeded in making an
upholstered pew in st. Peters Church,
New York, his bed every night for two
weeks before he was caught at it. He
Is now on Blackwell's Island for the
summer.
B. b. johnson and Charles II.
Smith, colored, accompanied by sew
eral colored women, entered Ilouston's
beer garden In Chicago a few nights
ago. They were told that colored peo-
pie were not served In the place, and
they had Houston arrested at once. On
the Goth, the case was heard by Justice
Smith. who held Housron to answer in
the Criminal Court under $500 bonds
for violating the State act of 1885. en-.
titled IAN act to protect all citizens in
their civil and legal rights" The
penalty is a fine of from $25 to $500, or
six months Imprisonment.
Near Petersburg, Penna., on the
evening of the Goth, Peter Burkard.
aged 40 years, shot and killed his young
wife in presence of their ~four-year-old
boy and then committed suicide. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
An express train on the Erie Rail-
way, on the morning of the 21st, dashed
into a gang of Italian laborers who
were balIasting the road near a sharp
curve between Ailendale and HohOkus,
New Jersey. killing twelve of the men.
The train, which was from Chicago for
New York, was an hour late, and it
rushed upon the unfortunate men
without the slightest warning.
The fy-wheel of an engine In the
Roane Iron Company's steel mill at
| Chattanooga burst on the morning of
the list. and tore up the roof of the
mill. The debris fell on a shed, under
which Engineer llord and another
workman were sleeping. Hord was
killed and the other severely injured.
Charles Saunders. a young man.
imprisoned in a flooded mine at Grand
Junction, Iowa, on the morning of the
18th, was rescued, ''alive and WELL"
on the afternoon of the 2lst. He es-
capped from the water by hiding ! n an
old air chamber, ten feet square, and
when rescued had been imprisoned one
hundred and ten hours.
Near Arden, Ontario, on the even
ing of the Goth, Mrs. w. B. Mills, her
two daughters and a sister. in-law went
into the lake to battle, One of the
daughters got beyond her depth and
the others went to her rescue. The re-
suit was that all except the younger
daughter wa drowned.
DR.. E. G.. Stevens, oyer 20 years
of age was arrested in Biddeford,
Maine, ON the afternoon of the 22d,
charged with malpractice on Miss
Mary Hall, % years of age. II is said
she cannot recover. w. IL. Nichols
aged 40 years. a prominent sheepman.
was murdered by some person or per.
sons unknown, while herding his sheep
near Fort Ch|anbourne, Texas, on the
18th. Mrs. Hattie Seymour, an aged
lady, was found murdered in her house
near Jacksonville, Ohio, on the evening
of the 2lst. The motive Of the crime
was evidently robbery.
The first special transcontinental
fruit train of ten cars from California
passed through Chicago on the 2lst,
i've cars being dropped there. and the
other five taken to New York. The
freight on the ten Car loads from San
Francisco TO Chicago was $1,000.
AT fhiihpsDurg, Montana, on the
morning of the 22d, a gang of masked
men visited j. l.. Currie, Superinten-
dent of the san Francisco Consolidated
and North Granite mines, and his asso-
ciates Louis Lamar and Samuel Toll
man, and taking them out of bed
served "cabalistic vigilantes 3, Z, H."
upon them. This meant that they
should leave the camp on peril of their
lives. Ropes were put about their
necks as more suggestive to their exit
from the camp. The allegations against
them was ''jumping'' adjacent mines.
They went out into the darkness. On
the 22d Lamar and Tolman returned
and swore out warrants against such of
their assailants as they could recognize
under their masks.
August SchlecheT, a drug clerk of
Hoboken, killed himself on the 22d
with prusslc acid, because a girl with
whom he was i'll love informed him
that she was engaged to another.
George Hoffman, aged 60 years, a
prominent brewer of Baltimore. COM
mitted suicide on the morning of the
22d Ly shooting himself in the head.
He had suffered from rheumatism for
several years.
"A train on the Iron Mountain
Railroad in Missouri was on the morn.
ing of the 22d thrown from the track
by a cow. The engineer was killed and
the passengers badly shaken up. A
switch engine and an accommodation
train collided In a tunnel at Cincinnati
on the 22d and several persons were
badly injured.
While men were digging a well in
Howell, Michigan, Oh the morning of
the 22d. natural gas was struck, and,
the flow becoming ignlted, "a tiame as
large as a barrel assembled to the height
of thirty feet"
"A tremendous thunder storm
visited Easton and the surrounding
district of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey, ON the afternoon of the 23d. The
house of George Fox, station agent at
Manunka Chunk, was undermined by
a rush OF water from the tunnel and
wrecked. Mr.. Fox's mother and her nice,
Mrs. Beers, were killed, Several farm
houses were struck by lightning. Tie
BLttsville depot was burned. All the
telegraph and telephone wires were
levelled. The storm caused great de-
struction to property throughout the
country. The trains on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad were delayed by the
tracks beng covered with earth and
water at various points. The seyerest
thunder storm known at Elizabeth.
New Jersey, for twelve years, pre-
vailed there on the afternoon of the
23d. The first floors of houses along the
Elizabeth river were oiled with water.
A new house ON Reed street was badly
damaged by lightning. A barge
loaded with stone and a schooner were
torn from their anchorage and dasl ed
against the Front street bridge, break
ing down the abutments. Henry
Saverbraun, 10 years of age, while try
ing to catch d~riftwood, was swept into
the river and drowned. Two bridges
ON the Harlem Railroad, near HIS
dale, New York, were washed away